Re: How do *you* handle Xymon alerts when you are on vacation (holiday in British English)?

[Robert Herron <robert.herron (at) gmail.com>]

Vacation / holiday?  What's that?

But seriously.  Since my Xymon server is a fully capable Linux box, my
hobbit-alerts.cfg sends emailto aliases defined in the /etc/aliases.
If/when someone wants messages disabled for vacation, I just change the
alias to send the message somewhere else.  I like this method as it prevents
needing to make changes to my fairly complex/convoluted hobbit-alerts.cfg
file and an errant update to the hobbit-alerts.cfg could cause alerting to
not work.

I don't use a native SMS gateway and instead use the cell provider's email
to text/SMS gateway.

Robert Herron
robert.herron (at) gmail.com


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:30 PM, <xymon-digest-help (at) xymon.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "SebA" <spa (at) syntec.co.uk>
> To: <xymon (at) xymon.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 19:30:18 +0100
> Subject: How do *you* handle Xymon alerts when you are on vacation (holiday
> in British English)?
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in the different ways that people handle alerts when they
> are
> on
> vacation (holiday in British English)...  I'm (still!) migrating from Big
> Brother BTF (still mostly use that for alerts, Xymon for the rest), and if
> I
>
> went on vacation, I'd just put 1 line at the bottom of bb-alerts excluding
> me
> from all alerts (as they get SMSed to my mobile) and someone else would get
> them (as I was never the only one to get them anyway).  But you can't do
> that
> in Hobbit / Xymon (as I posted about last year).
>
>